On 11 October 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claim to have been abducted by alien robots and taken aboard a saucer in Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA. Commonly referred to as “the Pascagoula abduction”.

 

This incident is Case 9 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 142 of the books covered by that article.

This incident featured in a list of cases produced by Greg Bishop as part of a survey by the Fortean Times in 2007 of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.

 

The Falkville, Alabama encounterreport involving Police Chief Jeff Greenhaw occurred on 17 October 1973. Photographs were allegedly taken of a humanoid figure.

This incident is Case 52 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 53 of the books covered by that article.

 

 

 

 

On 16 October 1973, the Russian newspaper Tass reported that Professor Samuel Kaplan (director of the Radio Institute at Gorky) had announced a Russian radio wave program directed by Professor Vsevolod Sergeevich Troitskii had found a signal which Professor Troitski believed came from some extra-terrestrial point. The signal was later found to have come from an American Big Bird satellite.

 

 

An alleged abduction involving Pat Roach (sometimes referred to by a pseudonym, “Patty Price”) and her children very early in the morning on 17 October 1973.